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...ivory ties, carries an ivory parasol, and goes through Borscht Belt jokes (very well, if you like them) at several crucial points. Milton Berle was the devil, Mr. Goodtime Eddie Filth, who honest-to-God baked big-breasted sex in a private oven and also hand cranked the shaft that turned Mercy's Merry-go Round...

Author: By Thomas M. Caplan, | Title: B-School Boy Meets 'Virgin Sex' | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...late, however, Agnew has demonstrated a surprising ability to turn the shaft in his favor. Having already won grudging admiration from his critics for his tireless efforts to learn his job, the Vice President delighted two of Washington's most capricious dinner audiences by delivering some of the best political punchlines heard in a long time. Although most of the gags are credited to Laugh-In Writer Paul Keyes, Agnew dropped his lines with professional aplomb, obviously relishing the blend of self-deprecatory humor and sly pokes at his boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vice-Presidency: Agnew Ascendant | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

body, keep it afloat like a boat. They are connected by a jointed shaft that per mits the Coot to flex with the terrain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Hill-and-Gully Riders | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...wound in the middle of the forehead." To Actress Shirley MacLaine she is "all turned in and vulnerable, a child with a highly energetic brain. From the neck up, she's 80." To Actor Roddy McDowall, "trying to describe Mia is like trying to describe dust in a shaft of sunlight. There are all those particles." Her conversation is clotted with such words as amulets, transcendentalism, Utopia?and then, unexpectedly but inevitably, a choice selection of four-letter expletives. Only when Mia uses them, her friends feel, somehow she makes them sound like an incantation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Moonchild and the Fifth Beatle | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

Bowing to conservationist pressures, Secretary Hickel agrees to convert California's last Redwood into a national monument. Hickel personally supervises the task of digging an elevator shaft to its top, where he opens a small heliport. Trish Nixon breaks her engagement to George Hamilton, reported honeymooning with Mark Rudd in Elkton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tea Leaves and Taurus | 1/6/1969 | See Source »

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